bavin

Made of firewood or kindling.

Adjective

  1. Made of firewood or kindling.
    • The skipping King, he ambled up and down, / With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits, / Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state, / Mingled his royalty with capering fools, - a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry...

Origin

Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).

Noun

  1. A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.
    • […]that hot love is soon cold: that the bavin, though it burn bright, is but a blaze: that scalding water, it if stand awhile, turneth almost to ice[…] - 1578, John Lyly, Euphues:

    1. (Southern England, archaic, countable) A faggot bound with only one band.

  2. Impure limestone.
    • The concretions […] are called 'bavin,' the shale associated with them being termed 'rotch.' - 1839, Roderick Murchison, The Silurian System, i. xxxvi. 484:

Forms

bavins

Verb

  1. To bundle and bind wood into bavins.

Forms

bavins bavining bavined